Dark Warrior
Your post is offensive, and that's the only way it can be described. Please desist from posting vitriol in this manner. Moving on, this thread seems to have sparked quite a bit of animosity between fellow Indians. Now while said animosity is perfectly fine since our nation has space enough for divergent views but please stop bringing up ideas such as secession.
Before we continue this discussion any further, I would humbly request the participants to make one distinction, another person's views can be challenged/debunked/agreed upon without maligning or thrashing our great nation. If Dark Warrior is antagonistic towards Tamils (it seems that way but it could be that his stance is more nuanced, lets see if he clarifies) then members such as Neuro can counter such posts without attacking India. Let us understand the nuances of the situation. Perhaps some members seem to not understand that when we says that we are proud that an Indian can be a Bihari, Punjabi, Marathi, Assamese, Malayali and a Tamil and still be an Indian first then we MUST also understand that our situation is unique and special. Let me clarify, unlike many other nations we have never really enforced a campaign of homogeneity (although the usage of Hindi and the insistence on its nationwide application has been by many to be exactly that) ergo we must also understand that India stands as a whole - a conflation of all these regional identities into a greater national identity- the cliche of the "brawn and resourcefulness of a Punjabi along with the brains and intelligence of the South-Indians and the Bengalis" was not meant to say that only Punjabis are brave or that only Bengalis are intelligent but rather to reinforce the idea that we are indeed one despite our differences and that we compliment each other greatly. In light of such a schema existing in our country our approach to all our affairs including external affairs and foreign relations must also be unique and special. Any policy decision must take into account the aspirations of all the people of this nation. IF Shrimati J. Jayalalithaa (Honbl. CM) demanded that India suddenly go to war with Sri Lanka over this then yes it would be high-jacking national affairs for the sake of regional politics , but then she is not demanding that, what she is requesting and too in a democratic manner (she hasn't started some civil disobedience movement here to "force" the GOI) is that the GOI is the ultimate representative of India and therefore it is the ULTIMATE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE STATE OF TAMIL-NADU AND ITS PEOPLE AND THUS IT MUST ACT ACCORDINGLY. Sure she may have some political axe to grind BUT her view coincides with the view of her people and that is what matters here.
It seems that the Tamilian members have been unable to understand the slight nuance that when the rest of the members refer to India and Indian interests then they are referring to their interests too. Indian members will always be more sensitive towards the plight of the Tamils of India before they look over across at SL. No one (save for one or two posters) is saying that the interests the Tamil people is different from the interests of India, these interests are infact Indian interests first since it has a bearing on a proud people who are proud Indians. Please understand this distinction, no one is asserting that the SL Tamils should be left high and dry and many of us are in steep disagreement with government policies which did exactly that in the past, the only difference is that first for us the Indian Tamil is our brother, our compatriot and OUR FELLOW CITIZEN- their problems are indeed our problems and we will support their stand but that is not equivalent to saying that SL Tamils are Indians. The crux of the matter is that YES WE MUST BACK THE STAND OF OUR TAMIL brothers BUT we must also understand that we have to careful with the wishes of the SL Tamils, they are not asking for a state that shall be part of the Indian Union- IF we are to help them then we must learn to listen to them and not high-jack their own cause (as in the case of the LTTE). The Indian government is busy pressurizing the SL government to live up to its promise regarding the Tamils, and the people of Tamil Nadu have not asked THEIR REPRESENTATIVES- THE GOI to not allow SL personnel to be trained anywhere in India- all they have said is that they should not be trained in TN due to obvious reasons. Shifting the personnel to a training center outside TN will not compromise our nation's security so the TN government is well within its rights to make the demand that it has made.
.. Tamilians are 7 crore people rember that
